The Ideas Timeline: Irrational Edition

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Irrational Ideas: the speculative and the disproven. From 30 Philosophers (updated): Irrational ideas, by definition, are considered irrationally false in a classical logical setting. These ideas are either inconsistent or rely on unverified empirical claims. Some can be proven false, while others remain untestable. There are two levels of falsehood: disproven ideas are always irrationally false, while speculative ideas are irrationally false only in a binary logical setting; otherwise, they are simply irrational. For example, beyond that strict logical setting, astrology remains irrationally false because it has been empirically disproven, while unicorns remain merely irrational because you cannot prove they do not exist.

The Ideas Timeline: Irrational

Oldest Known Monotheistic Religion: Atenism

In the ninth year of the reign of Akhenaten, he declared the traditional supreme God Aten to be the only God of Egypt with himself as the sole communicator to Aten. About the image: Akhenaton and Nefertiti seated, holding 3 of their daughters.

1344 BCE

circa 1340 to 1320 BCE

Major Religion: Hinduism

Hinduism, one of the world's oldest religions, emerged around 1100 BCE, several centuries after the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed. Hinduism has no known roots in the IVC, but it's a topic to follow as we uncover clues.

1100 BCE (+/- 300 years)

125 Generations Ago

Oort Cloud

Rationally predicted, unconfirmed: The Oort Cloud is a theoretical vast sphere of icy objects believed to surround our solar system at distances ranging from about 2,000 to 100,000 astronomical units from the Sun.

1932

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